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speedy_fish t1_j8w1pud wrote

It's unclear... My impression was that the change in his personality was due to the head trauma (an actual predictor of violent crime in adults). You may be right though.

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scarymaxx OP t1_j8wabcj wrote

I want to believe Derek is safe but sometimes I just don’t know…

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ObjectiveOne3868 t1_j8wubp4 wrote

Watch for the starts of hostility. It wasn't until after the poor kid was beaten by his father that he became...damaged. The thing with that, it could've been brain damage. Or it even could've been effects of the event itself. He forgot his father existing, but the event still happened. His brain knows the event happened. It's trauma. There's just no longer a person to match to that trauma. He probably never went to see a therapist. His innocence was stripped away when he was just old enough to start really remembering.

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ancientevilvorsoason t1_j8ybqxt wrote

Yeah, I also think it was that, since nobody else changed, neither Caroline, nor Pamela nor our characters.

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